| Philosophy and Psychotherapy Contributor(s): Erwin, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 080397521X ISBN-13: 9780803975217 Publisher: Sage Publications UK OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1996 Annotation: Challenging and incisive, Philosophy and Psychotherapy is the first authoritative work to apply philosophical discipline to therapeutic claims and counter claims. Author Edward Erwin discusses some of the key philosophical issues that have a particular relevance to psychotherapeutic theory??autonomy and free choice, the nature of the self, epistemology, and values and morals??as well as examining specific interdisciplinary issues that cut across the boundaries between philosophy and psychotherapy. In addition, he also looks at the crisis in psychotherapy today, offering a valuable philosophical insight into the debate about the proliferation and efficacy of therapeutic approaches. Philosophy and Psychotherapy breaks new ground and will encourage all psychotherapists, counselors, and applied psychologists to reexamine their practice and clarify their thinking. It is clearly a significant contribution to the critical analysis of one of the most influential systems of thought and practice of our time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - General |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| LCCN: 96-071787 |
| Series: Perspectives on Psychotherapy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.27" W x 9.16" (0.68 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For those readers who favour an empirical-scientific approach to counselling and therapy, and who view therapy, at least potentially or in principle, as an objective science, this will no doubt be a very useful and informative book... We should be grateful that Erwin has set out more fully than anyone to date the specifically philosophical case for a science of therapy; and those of a New Paradigm persuasion at least now know the nature of the arguments they will have to refute in order to sustain their position. I look forward with eager anticipation to their efforts, and to an emerging and fruitful engagement between philosophy and therapy - for both have a great deal to learn from each other′ - Counselling, The Journal of the Br |
Contributor Bio(s): Erwin, Edward: - Edward Erwin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, and is the author or editor of a number of books, the most recent of which is the Freud Encyclopedia (1994). |